As a preview for April, National Poetry Month, when I will share more poems. I don't write a lot of poetry, but I do write it when inspired. I wrote this six years after the Challenger loss. This was near another more pleasant anniversary, the first birthday of my...
So, the formatting didn't come through from the word processor, but here's a little scene I wrote from a writing prompt I gave my Creative Writing students for dialogue practice. Then they put it into screenplay format. Not sure if it will make it into Book III, but...
1. Please vote for ALL IS SILENCE in Wattpad's STORY OF THE YEAR contest! It's one of the top 150 Wattpad stories, but they're letting readers with Twitter accounts vote. If you don't have a twitter account, you can still spread the word. You may have to search...
Okay. Here's a random list of catch up things for January. 11 in November, 12 in December... Should be either 1 or 13 in January, no? Well, somewhere in between. Here we go. 0. [inserted last] Today is Lizzie's 14th birthday! Born 1/11/2002. 1. My friend and writing...
2015 had its highs and lows. Unfortunately the low spots were way lower than the highs were high. For the lows, I lost two students in June and had two more suffer significant injuries. Then this month I lost my new grandson, Nolan Luther. You can read my posts about...
2015 is closing out in the saddest way possible for me and my family. My daughter Sheridan gave birth to my third grand-child two weeks ago. She'd been battling horrendously high blood pressure and had to have an operation to remove a tumor in her adrenal gland. The...
Robert L. Slater, author of the young adult, apocalyptic science fiction series Deserted Lands, has worked as a teacher in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for 20 years. Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.